13 Jan
Software Engineers’ Predisposition Towards Skepticism
A recent post by Jesse Galef at Unreasonable Faith about why skeptics seem predisposed towards sarcastic forms of humour got me thinking. The question was whether there was a causal link between deriving humour from being able to spot the things that are exaggerated or out of place and being able to spot the things that are similarly incorrect in a proposition (see The Hurley Model of humour as an evolutionary incentive). Jesse describes this as “debugging”, and so naturally I thought of a potential link to my own profession.
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